| Most clothes available today in the market are | | | | tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an |
| produced unethically using fabrics, chemicals, and | | | | average family need of electricity. |
| pesticides that harm the environment. Huge amount of | | | | Bamboo |
| child labour is used to cut costs and make large | | | | Bamboo fabric is made from the soft fibres in bamboo |
| revenues and profits. | | | | pulp, which is taken out from the bamboo plant. Other |
| Fabrics like non-organic cotton when manufactured | | | | than being environment friendly, it has many other |
| releases air pollution in the form of carbon dioxide. | | | | qualities better from manufactured cloth. Bamboo cloth |
| Polyester used in making clothes produces petroleum | | | | helps the moisture on skin to be absorbed so that the |
| as a by-product. Dyes used in clothes release lots of | | | | skin can breathe even through the fabric. It also acts |
| chlorine, chromium, and pollutants, which is a health risk | | | | as antibacterial and antifungal. It is a wrinkle free fabric, |
| for farmers, producers, and consumers. | | | | which does not need ironing or dryer to dry. Another |
| People have now turned towards a positive change, | | | | advantage that bamboo plants have is that they frown |
| and have started demanding ethically responsible | | | | quickly releasing more oxygen than normal tress and |
| clothes and have stepped towards making the | | | | takes away carbon dioxide from the air. No pesticides |
| environment a better place to breathe in. Materials | | | | are required to grow bamboos. It is very easy to grow |
| used in making ethically responsible clothing are: | | | | them organically. |
| Organic Cotton | | | | Hemp |
| Many years ago, cotton was produced organically | | | | A plant known as Hemp produces the most |
| before pesticides and other chemicals were used in its | | | | environment friendly cloth in the world. It requires no |
| production. Cotton was cultivated in the fields in | | | | pesticides and takes very less amount of water to |
| rotation with other crops so that soil heath can be | | | | grow. Hemp is not only used in the textile and clothing |
| maximised. During the last six decades, cotton is the | | | | industry, it is also used in making paper and some |
| crop that uses more insecticide than any other crop | | | | plastic. It is more long lasting than cotton, and is |
| produced in the world. Cotton use 25% percent of the | | | | protecting, absorbing, allergy-free, and generally not |
| world's insecticides as it is the highest growing crop all | | | | irritating to the skin. |
| over the world. | | | | Tencel |
| Organic cotton is cultivated exclusive of pesticides and | | | | Tencel or Lyocell is a very soft fabric available today. |
| other chemical fertilisers. Contemporary organic | | | | It is produced from cellulose in wood pulp. This pulp is |
| methods and crop replacements are used to keep | | | | changed into fibres to make cloth out of it. It is friendly |
| pests minimised. According to a survey by UK | | | | to the environment and processed without using |
| government, if every citizen in the country purchase | | | | chemicals. It is very soft, long lasting, lightweight and |
| one piece of clothing made from recycled wool per | | | | recyclable. |
| year, it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 | | | | Check out variety of Linen Trousers. |